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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
Nobody believes in magicians any more, nobody believes that anyone can come along and wave a wand and turn you into a frog. But if you read in the paper that by injecting certain glands scientists can alter your vital tissues and you'll develop froglike characteristics, well, everybody would believe that.
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Understand this ... I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a &@#&.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.
She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
In the midst of life, we are in death.
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